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Every Story Ever Special: August 2017

Just before Matt heads off on vacation, we’re ranking as many comic book stories as we can manage!

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Episode 366 – Perpetual Wheelies f/ Katie Skelly

This week our guest is Katie Skelly, creator of My Pretty Vampire, Operation Margarine, Agent 9 and much more! We chat about movies from the 1970s, vampire fiction tropes, coloring and design, high culture vs. low, other types of undead creature, Abba, and much more! Plus, we add five ninjas to the Panel President list!

The Rundown:

Comics Reviewed:

  • DC Metal #1
  • Sandman Special
  • Mage: The Hero Denied #1

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Episode 365 – Practicon f/ Jeremy Whitley

We’re happy to welcome Jeremy Whitley, writer of Princeless and The Unstoppable Wasp, back to the show this week! We talk with him about Princeless being in development for a movie at Sony, working at Blockbuster, movie recommendations, spotlighting real-life scientists, the best of the five deadly venoms, dealing with trolls, Transmorphers and a lot more! Plus, we answer what might not be an uncommon listener question!

The Rundown:

Comics Reviewed:

  • Mister Miracle #1
  • Clue #3
  • WWE Summerslam Special 2017

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Episode 364 – The Shiny Bits f/ Kelly Thompson

Friend of the show Kelly Thompson drops by this week to talk about her new Ghostbusters: Answer the Call comic series, but before we get to that, we’ve got to gush about the Thor: Ragnarok trailer. On top of that, we discuss getting down character voices, Hawkeye, pitching, writing test scripts, being married to ideas, and a whole lot more! Plus we rank a few second-tier Batman characters for Panel President!

The Rundown:

  • Follow Kelly on Twitter!
  • In case you just came back to life after being dead for a while, here’s that Thor trailer.
  • Chris’ checks and recs: Trip to Minneapolis, NXT live
  • Matt’s check and rec: Seeing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Music used: Kevin MacLeod, “Ghost Hunter 160”

Comics Reviewed:

  • New Gods Special #1
  • Mech Cadet Yu #1

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Episode 363 – Cereal Showdown

It’s been a little while since we used our interview segment to answer your listener questions, so we’re doing it this week! Myriad topics are covered–a lot of food is discussed–and we even manage to get some comics in there.

The Rundown:

Comics Reviewed:

  • Transformers: Lost Light #8
  • Action Comics #984
  • TMNT/Usagi Yojimbo

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Every Story Ever Special: July 2017

Ready for some story rankings? We are, and we even go a little over two hours to make up for last month’s shortened episode (we’ll go over a little again next month).

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Episode 362 – Cataloguing Power Moves f/ James D’Amato

Our pal James D’Amato from the One Shot and Campaign podcasts drops by this week to talk about his new project, Dungeon Dome, which combines gaming with pro wrestling! We talk about whether James is a wrestling guy, wrestling storytelling, new audiences for tabletop games, audience participation, gladiatorial weapons and much more! Plus, we add some new characters to the Panel President list!

The Rundown:

Comics Reviewed:

  • Batman #27
  • Archie #22
  • Lazarus X-66 #1

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Episode 361 – Comics and Comics f/ Fred Van Lente

Friend of the show Fred Van Lente returns this week to talk about branching out from comics with his brand new novel, Ten Dead Comedians! We talk about the difference between comics and prose writing, book recommendations, injecting real-world stuff into fictional worlds, basing characters on real-life famous people, death traps, nailing character voices, butt medicine and much more! Plus, we take one serious listener question and one silly listener question!

The Rundown:

Comics Reviewed:

  • Mage: The Hero Denied #0
  • DC Metal: The Casting #1
  • Spider-Men II #1

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Episode 360 – More than a Mustache (Panel President Special)

After a little sick break, we’re back and ranking comic characters in this extra-sized episode! Among the rankings are Batman b-list villains, Superman analogues and comics royalty!

The Rundown

  • Chris’ check and rec: The Library, GLOW
  • Matt’s check and rec: Telltale Batman, Wonder Woman

Comics Reviewed

  • Elmer Fudd/Batman #1
  • Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #1
  • War of Jokes and Riddles Pts. 1 and 2

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Holiday Week!

Hey folks,

We weren’t necessarily planning to take the week of July 4 off, but Chris got sick and lost his voice last week, so we didn’t get a chance to record anything, so it’s just kind of working out that way.

We’ll be back next week with a new episode, featuring a cool guest!